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Monthly Income Report – May 2023

Dear Readers, We are almost half way done with 2023. Summer is on us. Schools have closed for the summer break. Time is really flying by. I was looking at our expenses and planning for the remainder of this year, my wife discovered that our AC was not really cooling as it should. I took…

Two Year Blog-a-ver-sa-ry

Dear Readers, Today marks the day when this blog turns 2 years old! This is a pretty huge deal from a personal standpoint. While I have maintained a blog at different junctures in my life, those blogs eventually died away because I simply lost interest OR some other project took precedence. The fact that I…

The Five Rules For Successful Stock Investing – Book Review

Dear Readers, As I have stated multiple times in this blog, I have derived (and continue to derive) almost all of my knowledge about investing by reading books. I feel this is a far better medium of learning the tricks of the trade. It also comes as no surprise that the most successful investors of…

Lets talk about – DLR

Dear Readers, In investing, as with most things in life, we all have our winning moments and we also have our not-so-glorious moments. And while there is a strong human tendency to keep make bombastic remarks about our winning moments, there is usually very little commentary around our mistakes. Why so? Well, why would anyone…

Monthly Income Update – April 2023

Dear Readers, We are in the midst of yet another earnings season. And we are continuing to see news about bank failures and other regional banks struggling. Yet the market seems to be holding its course navigating through these troubled waters. If I am incredibly honest, I have not paid any real attention to my…

Misunderstandings about Dividend Growth Investing

I am building a decent follower base on Twitter and that gives me the opportunity to interact with investors from different backgrounds, with different mindsets with different set of questions. Some of these interactions are particularly interesting where questions center around whether dividend growth investing is a meaningful strategy towards reaching financial independence. I know…

Monthly Income Update – March 2023

Dear Readers, Three months have come and gone! Can’t believe how fast time is flying. And quite honestly, what a roller coaster this year has been so far. It somehow seems like there is plenty of action to come in the remainder of this year. While I have been a passive spectator to the events…

Investing in Banks

Dear Readers, I have been super busy between work and daily family activities leaving very little time to even look at my portfolio. Having said that, I have been watching the banking crisis unfold from the sidelines. This is a still a developing story and we do not know what lies ahead in this saga.…

Monthly Income Update – February 2023

Dear Readers, February has come and gone. I have been quiet on the blogging front as most of my family has been under the weather for a major part of this month. If you have lived in Texas, you would have heard a lot of the locals complain about allergies all the time. I didn’t…

Monthly Income Report – January 2023

Dear Readers, The first month of 2023 is already in the books! And amidst all of this talk of recession, the market has actually held up pretty well, up by almost a 7% in the last month. However, there was news circling around regarding layoffs in Big Tech. Layoffs are quite disruptive for the impacted…

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